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Black cats and lucky (and unlucky) numbers

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Rob Archer
Jul 13, 2007
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Friday the 13th!

Ah, superstition. It's all so fun and so damn silly.

Why are humans this way?

I'd like to recommend a life-changing book to you: "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark" by Carl Sagan. It will give you a gift that keeps on giving -- a fully-active, self-loading "baloney detector." It'll teach you to think about what you t…

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